Highly experienced veteran forest tech mostly working in complicated road engineering in BC Canada. I have a college background in Forest technology as well as environmental planning/science. I have an offer on the table to switch from forestry to land surveying. I know a lot of the same skills over lap as there is a lot of surveying involved in my forestry role. Just trying to decide if it would be worth making the switch. I love the engineering problem solving side of forestry and love the ecology side of forestry. I dislike the disfunction in the industry (alcoholic co workers etc) also dislike how much it beats up my body. (Very harsh mountainous terrain). I know I could always take an office forestry job but I think I’d go insane. Just looking for if any one has input or feedback on how land surveying stacks up to forest tech work. Thanks!

I have a scholarship for Piedmont tech in South Carolina if that matters; I wanna be a logger what should I take with it?

I'm interested in being a equipment operator. I'm 17 I'm a highschool f up I have a tech school scholarship but idk what to take so I might not use it idk yet. I don't learn from sitting behind a desk I learn from doing it hands zone. I live in South Carolina if that matters; I think I'm cook because they say logging a family thing. How do I start?

Can you identify the common name and scientific name of the tree

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Foresters, i want to hear Your opinion. Innoculation of Agarwood (Oud!Gaharu/沈香) is laborious and just an absolute pain in the proverbial. Depending on how thorough you want to be, one tree can take anywhere from few hours to a full day. I have been thinking about ways to accelerate the process.... The goal is to get inoculant on to the heartwood to induce infection.

So I wonder if its possible to just split the trees, vertically, and open them like a butterfly/hinge, thereby exposing the heartwood and allowing rapid inoculation. Innoculant is applied (sprayed directly on heartwood). As long as the cambium is at least partially intact, the tree will survive.

The splitting could be achieved manually (using splitter wedges and sledgehammer) or potentially mechanically with a hydraulic log-splitter (would need some tweaking). I think this process would work... To facilitate the splitting, i reckon a chainsaw can be run through horizontally to ~50% of the diameter. This could be repeated at several intervals up the trunk.

So I tthink that's pretty straightforward.

But the problem is, how to 'close' the tree again? I open my tree. Apply inoculant... and then? How can i close the tree? Or is there Something i can spray into/onto the wound to seal it?

A botanist I worked under for about a year told me that tree work was not for me. I was passionate about developing a career and even looking forward to becoming a certified arborist one day. Things got weird. They became threatening and before I knew it nothing I did was good enough. I pretty much untied ropes, hauled branches, and operated a chipper. So, I just gave up.

Hi, I’m 15 and I want to pursue a career in forestry, to be more specific operating a harvester/forwarder. In my country college is free and there are a couple courses I can do relating to it. I can either do an engineering one where I learn how to fix/maintain heavy equipment or a forestry one. Which one would be more useful? My end goal is to own a harvester and forwarder and do small scale logging in smaller forests as I live in an area where there are lots of small hardwood/softwood forests. I have easy ways to learn how to use the machinery, right now I do some forwarding with my dad’s tractor and forwarding trailer and soon my cousin will teach me on his harvester. So, which college course would be more useful?

Elysee at Greens North Lakes didn't call election yet word is May 2025.

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I've noticed the tops of these trees have been cut, near a clear-cut located in Mission, BC. Anyone know what the purpose of this could be?

There are a lot of talks, presentations and diacussions about carbon market and forestry. However, when question abou the price of the credit appears I cannot hear any specific answers. Does someone have an experience of implementing carbon project and getting paid?

Im a young woman going to school for forestry. What’s it like for a woman in the field from what you guys see? I know I might need to relocate to find a decent job but I wanted to see the best states for it. I’m going to a school with a great forestry program it’s a Penn state affiliate. I’m also a woman of color the school is pretty accepting but I am a very light woman of color with mixed race appearance I’m kind of racially ambiguous. Any thoughts?

What accredited university offers plant courses entirely online? Something like dendrology.

Currently in Southern Arkansas. Grandfather planted quick-growth pine and it seems everyone had the same idea. Prices are not good for the landowner. Currently older family still wants it to stay pine, but I think after they pass away to convert it to hardwood slowly over time.

While hardwood would be much slower growth, it seems like it would allow for better hunting and a better chance for a higher price with hardwood. Any thoughts on the matter?

What's a good logging equipment operator school.to get your logging certificate?

I’m in a running start program and next semester I was planning on changing to an environmental science AA degree I was just curious what would be the preferred schooling I would need to get a forestry job? If it helps I’m in the Pacific Northwest area

Hello, I was wanting to get into a forestry type of career seeing how my military career was abruptly ended. I'm looking for recommendations on certifications that I can earn to make me more diverse and employable on the federal side. Any advice or suggestions?

There are more than 200 data points but there are only 64 non-zero data points. There are 8 explanatory variables, and the data is over dispersed (including zeros). I tried zero inflated poisson regression but the output shows singularity. I tried generalized poisson regression using vgam package, but has hauk-donner effect on intercept and one variable. Meanwhile I checked vif for multicollinearity, the vif is less than 2 for all variables. Next thing I tried to drop 0 data points, and now the data is under dispersed, I tried generalized poisson regression, even though hauk-donner effect is not detected, the model output is shady. I’m lost,if you have any ideas please let me know. Thank you

I’m Thinking of going back to school for forestry. I’ve been working in the horticulture industry and have been feeling burnt out with a lack of purpose. I’m wondering how fulfilling forestry was for you and if it helped give you a sense of purpose in life.